Quotes About Fortune

It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Some folks want their luck buttered.

How unexpected [are] the attacks of destiny!

Gabriel's malignant star was assuredly setting fast.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

How do you become wealthy? Here, too, most people have it wrong. It is seldom luck or inheritance or advanced degrees or even intelligence that enables people to amass fortunes. Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

De la culture et de la fortune, voilà le bourgeois.

Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.

Perhaps the only reason they survived, Stencil reasoned, was that they were not alone. God knew how many more there were with a hothouse sense of time, no knowledge of life, and at the mercy of Fortune.

But elephants have souls. Anything that can get drunk, he reasoned, must have some soul. Perhaps this is all "soul" means. Events between soul and soul are not God's direct province: they are under the influence either of Fortune, or of virtue.

La quiebra es parte del ciclo natural de los negocios. Las empresas nacen, mueren y el capitalismo continúa. Revista Fortune

It's not luck, I'm cheating." (Allen Walker)

he'd thought of fate as something hostile, a thief moving soundlessly in the night

A sharp eye is the mother of good luck.

You never know your luck till the wheel stops.

Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Lon not only lost his horse; he was struck in the breast by a bullet, but his dispatch book and pistol, which were tucked in his breast pocket, took the full impact of the projectile. "It only knocked the breath out of my body," he remembered.